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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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To be is to do. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! ↗

— Henry James

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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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We'll do it, we'll do it. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane